Mediocre all the way!

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2013)

Just got back from seeing "Pacific Rim" and my worst fears about this movie have come to fruition! I was disappointed and underwhelmed! I wanted to like it, I really did and I really tried, but in the end I thought it was an O.K. movie that should have been and could have been great. While a cool concept and story, I thought the script was incredibly derivative and saw everything and every cliché coming a mile away. To me, the films biggest sins though are: THE MONSTERS – I thought the designs were bland, unimaginative, uninteresting and unmemorable. Can't remember what they looked like after I left the theater. THE ACTION – Every piece of action in this movie was shot and edited horribly! Horrendous stuffUnforgivable! More weasel on acid cam, more editing by a meth addict on speed, everything I have come to expect, hate and dread in the movies of the last 10 years. To spend most of your budget on special effects and not let your audience get a good look at things is wasteful and frustrating! You could have shot robot puppets on strings, whip panned all over the place and cut it like a coke fiend and saved 99 million bucks! I think that "Robot Jox" (Which was made for around 140 million less), was a much better and enjoyable giant robot flick, where you actually get to see what is going on!. I think I'll watch it tonight to get the bad taste of "Pacific Rim Job" out of my mouth!